Yahoo CEO tees off on media; “frickin’ Google”

Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz, known for her often blunt and occasionally expletive-laden interviews, didn’t disappoint during Tuesday’s press conference announcing the launch of a more than $100 million brand campaign.

Late in the Q&A, she used a reporter’s question that boiled down to “is the media too obsessed with change at Yahoo,” to tee off onto a broader critique of what she portrayed as unfair coverage of her company and less-than-skeptical reporting on its nemesis.

When you get outside of New York City and Silicon Valley, everybody loves Yahoo. . . . You get 30 miles outside the business press, and 30 miles outside Silicon Valley and they’re fine.

I just want to transplant all you guys out of this sort of cynicism you’re in. I mean, why are you cynical about us? Be cynical about frickin’ Google. Leave us alone.

If you don’t like us, just leave us alone, we’ll just deal with our users, because you know what? We do great things for them and we’re excited about what we are.